"Look, Arthur was ruining the firm. But I didn't kill him. I was on a zoom call with our European stock brokers until 11:30 PM. After that, I drove straight down to the Apex headquarters lounge to gather my physical files because I heard Arthur was planning to fire me. I got to the security gate at exactly midnight. Ask Briggs! Oh wait, you can't trust Briggs—when I pulled up, the main security console desk was completely empty and the gate was left wide open. Where was he?"

"I was downtown at the corporate Tech-Launch Gala all night long. Hundreds of tech personnel saw me. I arrived around 7:30 PM, drank champagne, and didn't leave the main floor ballroom until well past 1:00 AM. I deleted my social media profiles this morning because crazy web sleuths are spamming my photos with death threats. There's nothing left online but dead cache lines."

"Bob is lying to save his own skin. I was glued to the main monitor console station from 11:00 PM until the police arrived at 12:15 AM. Bob rolled up to my gate at 11:40 PM looking incredibly nervous. Sarah Vance wasn't at the office at all. Though, if you want a real lead, someone remotely logged into Arthur's terminal profile using an administrative override clearance right before the alarms tripped at midnight. Only someone with corporate root access credentials could bypass my physical firewall."